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architecture and design magazineSat, 10 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Pasel Kuenzel completes timber-clad V13K05 house for a Dutch photographerhttps://www.dezeen.com/2016/07/09/pasel-kuenzel-v13k05-house-netherlands-leiden-timber-clad/
https://www.dezeen.com/2016/07/09/pasel-kuenzel-v13k05-house-netherlands-leiden-timber-clad/#commentsSat, 09 Jul 2016 20:00:28 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=929328A central lightwell and a secluded courtyard bring natural light into the heart of this house in Leiden, the Netherlands, which was designed by Pasel Kuenzel for a photographer and his family. The V13K05 house was developed by Rotterdam-based Pasel Kuenzel to meet the varying requirements of the family of six. It also accommodates a home office for the

"Under the Dutch skies, natural daylight creates an ever-changing ambience of light and space, being the essential elements of the photographer to work with," said the architects.

Light also floods into the ground floor through sliding glass doors that open onto a small gravel-filled courtyard at the rear of the house.

The open-plan layout of the living, dining and kitchen space, as well as the palette of grey flooring and white-painted walls and ceilings, enhance the bright feel of the interior.

The street-facing elevation incorporates a full-height window on the ground floor alongside a recessed entrance, with a band of windows on the first floor lining the bedrooms.

"The quite three-dimensional spatial plan of the house is reduced in the facade to contrasting horizontal lines, changing between glass and wood," said architect Frederik Kuenzel, "one material with an abstract and reflecting surface, the other as haptic and light-absorbing as possible."

The horizontal arrangement of the facade is also emphasised by two strips of timber cladding, featuring vertical battens of different depths that add an element of relief to the otherwise flat surfaces.

V13K05 is the latest in a series of private properties designed by Pasel Kuenzel for the Dutch city, where 670 new homes are being constructed as part of a masterplan by Rotterdam firm MVRDV.

"The masterplan of MVRDV is quite experimental from very different points of view," added Kuenzel.

"An inner-city project with so much freedom for various architects means a lot in terms of process, financing, logistics and also architectural vision. For us as architects, it's an incredible resource for researching and designing a great variety of typologies in inner-city high-density situations."

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2016/07/09/pasel-kuenzel-v13k05-house-netherlands-leiden-timber-clad/feed/2Urban Villa in Amsterdam by Pasel Kuenzel Architectshttps://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/09/urban-villa-in-amsterdam-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/
https://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/09/urban-villa-in-amsterdam-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/#commentsWed, 09 Oct 2013 20:00:09 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=369442This L-shaped wooden house by Dutch studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects sits at the water's edge on an artificial island in Amsterdam. Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects designed the family home in Grote Rieteiland, one of six islands that makes up the man-made archipelago of Ijburg, east Amsterdam. Each residence on the group of islands is allocated a similar-sized plot

]]>This L-shaped wooden house by Dutch studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects sits at the water's edge on an artificial island in Amsterdam.

Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects designed the family home in Grote Rieteiland, one of six islands that makes up the man-made archipelago of Ijburg, east Amsterdam.

Each residence on the group of islands is allocated a similar-sized plot and shaped by strict scale and massing guidelines.

For this house, the architects created a rectilinear building with a three-storey tower on one side and a small courtyard at the entrance.

"Within a strict and complex set of urban rules [we] succeeded to develop a plain and sober urban villa that is unique in its reduced design and compelling in its materialisation and level of detailing," said the architects.

White-painted wooden boards clad the house's exterior, interspersed with windows that extend right to the edges of the facade.

A monochrome colour scheme dominates the interior, which accommodates a large open-plan living area on the ground floor and bedrooms and workspaces inside the tower.

Sliding doors provide access from the ground floor to a waterside garden, while the master bedroom opens out onto a large roof terrace.

Close and compact are the residences lined up along the waterside of Grote Rieteiland, an artificial island in Amsterdam's hip neighbourhood Ijburg.

Within a strict and complex set of urban rules pasel.kuenzel architects succeeded to develop a plain and sober urban villa that is unique in its reduced design and compelling in its materialisation and level of detailing.

The building is a composition of a horizontal plinth for living and a vertical element comprising workspaces, bedrooms for the kids, a master bedroom and above all a tremendous roof terrace. Due to a 12m wide glazed facade on the south side the main living area relates directly to the water. The house grants access via a patio facing the street and marking the threshold between public and private.

The unusual materialisation of white painted raw timber boards of Douglas fir underlines the compelling power of simple things.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2013/10/09/urban-villa-in-amsterdam-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/feed/1V12K0709 Piano House by Pasel Kuenzel Architectshttps://www.dezeen.com/2012/06/03/v12k0709-piano-house-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/
https://www.dezeen.com/2012/06/03/v12k0709-piano-house-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/#respondSun, 03 Jun 2012 15:00:55 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=214185This house for a pianist and a violinist in Leiden, the Netherlands, is the latest in a series by Dutch architects Pasel Kuenzel on the site of a former slaughterhouse. Named V12K0709, the house occupies a rectangular plot and screens two courtyard gardens behind its slatted timber exterior. Most of the ground floor spaces open out onto these gardens, including a music

This remarkable urban villa, designed by Dutch architects Ralf Pasel and Frederik Künzel, is located on the site of a former industrial area, in the heart of the Dutch city of Leiden.

The spatial idea of this urban residence is based on a 3 metre high, all-embracing wooden screen that surrounds the whole site enclosing as well the building volumes as the building voids of the patio and garden.

The composition of this wooden filter, made out of 'dancing' timber fins, refers directely to the musical oeuvre of the concert violist and the pianist living in the house.

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It manifests a crescendo of multifaceted visual relationships and allows for an exceptional syncopical relation between public and private life; between inside and outside the house.

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While the merging interior and exterior spaces on the groundfloor are taken up by the living and music areas, the upperfloor comprises various private rooms with individual roofterraces.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2012/06/03/v12k0709-piano-house-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/feed/0V12K0102 by Pasel Kuenzel Architectshttps://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/06/v12k0102-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/
https://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/06/v12k0102-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/#commentsTue, 06 Sep 2011 14:50:14 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=152962Here's the next house in the series of eleven by Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects on the site of a former slaughterhouse in Leiden, Netherlands. Named V12K0102, the house and its neighbours form part of an area masterplan by Dutch architects MVRDV. The 30 metre-long building alternates between one and two storeys-high and is clad

On the site of a former slaughterhouse in the historical heart of the Dutch university city of Leiden, emerges one of the biggest urban developments of private dwellings in the Netherlands.

In their series of eleven, Rotterdam based architects pasel.künzel architects present yet another spectecular house giving a new interpretation of the classical Dutch housing typology.

With their V12K0102 residence pasel.kuenzel architects created a remarkable project on an almost triangular building plot, the remnant of an inner city housing block.

On a 30 metre long one-storey high base, two building volumes were placed on opposite side, one being the ‘children’s house’ and the other serving as the ‘house of the parents’.

The two parts facing each other allow for visible eye contact, but are furthermore physically separeted.

Collective spaces for living, dining and playing are situated on the ground floor, meandering around two intimate courtyards and establishing an immediate relation between ‘life inside and outside’ – an oasis in the city.

Towards the city, the introvert house reveals his inner life by only two gigantic glass panes that also permit the characteristic Dutch light to reach deep into the museum like spaces.

]]>https://www.dezeen.com/2011/09/06/v12k0102-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/feed/11V35K18 by Pasel Kuenzel Architectshttps://www.dezeen.com/2011/02/15/v35k18-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/
https://www.dezeen.com/2011/02/15/v35k18-by-pasel-kuenzel-architects/#commentsTue, 15 Feb 2011 13:43:30 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=116773Rotterdam studio Pasel Kuenzel Architects have completed another house for MVRDV's masterplan in Leiden, the Netherlands (see the other houses here). Called V35K18, the residence is separated from the house behind by a narrow glazed section, which forms the entrance. The glazing covers a corridor extending the full height of the building, sandwiched between the two houses.

V35K18 residence is located on the southern corner of an urban block comprising 18 utterly different houses. Due to its distinct design, clear materialisation and dark color the compact building forms a dominant ‘corner stone’ within the existing urban fabric.

All architectural details are subordinate to this principle. The massive brick volume is detached from the adjacent neighbour building by a glazed void and the square floor-to-ceiling windows are detailed flush into the facade. The smaller but longer ‘Hilversum-format’ of the bricks allows for an surprising elegancy and noblesse, and at the same time the black color of the facade associates directly with the traditional Dutch buildings dating from the 16th, 17th and 18th century.

Functional, the residence is set up in a classical Dutch way: work related program is located on the ground floor, living on the bel-etage and sleeping on the upper floor. The spectacular cascade stairwell situated in the glazed void on the long side of the building, generates an overwhelming space between the public and private realm.